Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-03-05


WAsHINGTON, Feb. Is, 81.
This is an era OF resignation in official 4
life in Washington The Secretary of I
the Treasury is about 70 resign, the u . +
$. Treasurer viii follow, the Vice Pres 4
ideat pro tenn of the Senate resigned /
this week. the Commissioner Of Patents /
Will resign during the coming month,
blr. AIatthews, the colored Commits
sIOner of Deeds Of the District OF Co
lumbia must resign, and with regard 70
some of these at least the country is
resigned 70 their resignation. Last but
not least, the Forty Ninth Congress will
resign at noon on the 4lh day of March.
Much work remains to be done, several
important appropriation bills have not
only not passed, but are only half
digested in committee; but during the
next I'VE days OF its life Congress will
do in q hurried and imperfect manner
the work which should have been done
deliberately and carefully IN the earlier
duys of the session. In addition 10 the
appropriation bills, there are q number
Of important public and private meas
ures which will be hurried through, If
possibly. But with the vast number Of
bills occupying prominent places upon
the calendar, there is hardly time
enough TO pass the appropriation bills.
hold several night sessions, and also
Sunday session.
In the Republican Senatorial caucus
held Thursday, il was stated with some
pOsitiveness that a special session of the
Senate would be called Immediately at
ter the adjournment of Congress II
was said that the President had init
mated TO leading Republican Senators
/ that he would call a special session to
act upon some treaties and confirm
/ some important nominations.
/ There is much speculation as to what
/ the President viii do with the bill
/ which passed the House some days
since and the Senate Thursday, Great
ing new Cabinet Office, the Depart
I ment Of Agriculture The bill has been
! pending Tor some years, and once pass
/ ed both houses, but was vetoed by Pres
/ ident Arthur. Mr.. Hatch, Chairman
/ of the Agricultural Committee, and 9TH
er friends Of the measure who have
/ talked with the President on the sub
/ ject, say he will sign the bill.
In case he does, it seems to be well
established that Mr.. Hatch will desire
10 get into the Cabinet, and it is not i'm
| probable that the President will recog-
nize him Commissioner of Agricul-
ture Coleman will also expect to be
/ very generally petitiOned for the pas
sage Of the bill, and upon this it is ar
gued that the President cannot, from a
political point Of view, afford 10 disap-
prove the bill.
The weather service Of the u. 5.
Signal Service Bureau is 10 be trans
ferred after July 1, 1887, to the new
Department of Agriculture
The.questiOn OF who will be Secretary
of the Treasury is as unsettled as ever.
! According 10 the knowing ones, Minis
ter fendletOn and ex-Mayor Grace
have about equal chances OF being Sc
lected, while others are mentioned
with nearly equal frequency. 1t is pos
lively asserted that the Office has been
offered 10 Representative Scott and
! Speaker arlisle, and that both declin-
ed it, the latter only last Sunday.
Those who think that an outsider viii
be nominated hold that Mr. Eairchiid
stands no chance, because, if the Presi-
dent had any idea of taking him into the
cabinet he probably would have been
nominated before this, and at any rate
the President would not have found il
necessary TO consider any other names
IN connection with the matter Mr..
taiTchild's friends, on the contrary, are
firm IN the belief that be will be Air.
Manning's successor, and think that
the President has not done so much
consulting and considering in the mat
ter as has been represented, and that
he will nominate his man before Con
gress adjourns.
Senator Ingalls,, Of Kansas, was elect
2 ed President pro TEN OF the Senate, in
place OF Air. Sherman, resigned. His
election will result in increasing his sal
airy from $4,000 to So, 900 a year, in al
p lowing him an additional privere sec,
. Rotary, and in affording him a great
many little personal cOnvenieucies o.
that kind. He can and will retain hi,
Craftsmanship of the District Committed
2 and his communicating.
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